Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
CARL SAGANOur species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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Your god is too small for my universe.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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